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Updated: June 13, 2025
Nothing remains to be done: the little door is fastened behind me, the prickly acacia boughs are piled up against it on the outside, and my people are anxious to be off. The poor cow, too, listens with dismay to the retreating footsteps of the party, and has already made some furious plunges to free herself, and rejoin the rest of the kine, who have been driven off, nothing loth, toward home.
Large cauldrons, at side of steps leading down to sunken gardens, designed by Mullgardt. North Entrance to Court of Ages "Daughter of Neptune" or "Aquatic Life," large female figure in north Court of Ages, by Sherry E. Fry. Planting: eucalyptus, acacia, laurel. Illumination
The third, is the Bricklow Acacia, which seems to be identical with the Rose-wood Acacia of Moreton Bay; the latter, however, is a fine tree, 50 to 60 feet high, whereas the former is either a small tree or a shrub. Its long, slightly falcate leaves, being of a silvery green colour, give a peculiar character to the forest, where the tree abounds. Oct. 1.
Joyce sponged his head with cold water, drank a cup of strong coffee, put on an imposing official tarboosh instead of his sun-helmet, and formed himself into a court of inquiry and judgment under the acacia tree. He would have liked his people to have seen him now, with his two black orderlies in waiting, and his Egyptian native officer at his side.
A sudden blush overspread his venerable cheeks, and as she stooped to kiss his hand, he said: "No, no, my dear child; accept rather from your old friend, your best friend, a more tender embrace." He kissed both her burning cheeks. The Head Forester laughing heartily, cried out: "Monsieur Seiler, come and sit down under the acacia tree and drink some of your own wine.
In Mexico the Indian carnation is popularly known as the "flower of the dead," and the people of Tahiti cover their dead with choice flowers. In America the Freemasons place twigs of acacia on the coffins of brethren. The Buddhists use flowers largely for funeral purposes, and an Indian name for the tamarisk is the "messenger of Yama," the Indian God of Death.
The generous rainfall covers the whole surface with green. There are forests of eucalyptus, or "gum tree," tree ferns, beech, and acacia just about the same kinds that one finds in Australia. The animals, too, are much the same as in Australia, and some species of them are pouched, like the opossum.
The sweet, or honey, locust is another variety, which is also called the three-thorned acacia, because the thorns consist of one long spine with two shorter ones projecting out of it, like little branches, near its base. This is said to display much of the elegance of the tropical acacia in the minute division and symmetry of its compound leaves.
"I suppose," I asked, "that here in Acacia Villas you are always the genuine article." "Always," he declared with emphasis. "Once," he went on, "I tried to play a game on Emma. I came home as one of the others, forced my way into the house, and was clouted over the head and chucked into the street.
At one little geyser, bubbling up in the very middle of the road, as we passed we saw a boy pelting the water with stones and mud in order to make it mad and see it spout. The plain was sprinkled here and there with thickets of acacia and mesquite. In the early evening the breeze came loaded with the fragrance of the golden balls of the acacia.
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